Sentences with phrase «building simulation model»

At that time, there were major advances in Building Sector technologies — in glazing materials (heat mirror and low - e coatings), passive and active solar energy systems design and applications, passive and active cooling applications, natural ventilation systems, phase - change materials, moveable insulation, building simulation modeling programs, daylighting systems and controls, energy management systems, night set - back thermostats and occupancy sensors, solar hot water heating, solar thermal electric generation and storage, photovoltaics and advances in low - energy lighting systems, to name just a few.

Not exact matches

Should the team build a model or test it with a computer simulation?

Computer simulations build on, and are a useful adjunct to purely mathematical models in science, technology and entertainment.

The researchers can also create a «hybrid simulation» that combines a mathematical model of a building with the physical object in the lab.

To help bridge the gap between theoretical modeling and experimental practice, Hirzel and the team built a web application for collaborators to explore the results of more than half a million quantum chemistry simulations.

Today's version of the NPS1 model includes a digital simulation of every building in the area affected by the bomb, as well as every road, power line, hospital, and even cell tower.

They used this novel simulation approach to build a model of a sperm cell that demonstrates cellular movement from individual dynein protein molecules in the tail all the way up to the whole cell, allowing them to observe how changes at the atomic level are reflected in larger - scale structures.

By means of building simulations and advanced calculation models, the researchers came to the conclusion that using plenty of energy is both an economic and an environmental advantage, while it is also inexpensive and green.

At times, researchers had to invent new modeling capabilities to get the simulations to work, such as mapping of fire - generated environmental temperatures onto the structural components of the buildings.

They hooked the simulation computer to a rapid prototyping machine, commonly used by industrial engineers to build models of parts and products that are being designed.

Appropriators in the Senate, meanwhile, endorsed plans for a center dedicated to the modeling and simulation of nuclear reactors, and gave qualified support to two more: A hub to make fuels directly from sunlight and another on energy - efficient buildings.

Chu highlighted the department's biggest new research initiative, a set of eight new Energy Innovation Hubs, each one focused on a different energy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulation.

By building the model into hardware or a computer simulation, researchers can cool the system until it reaches its lowest energy, revealing the solution.

Now that we know partial transmission processes can be important, researchers can build microscopic models and simulations to explore them in more detail, and engineers can design devices that enhance or take advantage of this aspect of thermal conductance for a variety of materials.»

Model simulations were run over 15 years in 18 counties in Northern and Southern California, assuming a control scenario that reflects the current status of the urban areas, and a cool roof scenario in which all buildings had commercially available cool roofs installed.

Building upon previous work on fluid and viscous sheet simulation also done at Columbia Computer Graphics Group, Zheng has developed a new viscous sheet simulation method to model the color film stretch during the hydrographic printing process.

Computer simulation is similar, it's reductionist; you've got these parts, you want to see how they interact, so you build a model and compare it to the real world.

In research published this week in Astrophysical Journal Letters, Dr Zoe Leinhardt and colleagues from Bristol's School of Physics have completed computer simulations of the early stages of planet formation around the binary stars using a sophisticated model that calculates the effect of gravity and physical collisions on and between one million planetary building blocks.

The researchers built a high - resolution model that incorporated the known geologic features of the Japan Trench and used CEES simulations to identify possible earthquake rupture histories compatible with the available data.

The USC researchers applied a regional climate model to California, and Berkeley Lab ran simulations of building energy consumption.

Future work includes building a multiscale simulation framework that establishes connections between the proposed model to atomistic models based on explicit parametrization of relevant transport and oxidation parameters via appropriate small - scale models.

Other Hubs are devoted to modeling and simulation of nuclear reactors, achieving major improvements in the energy efficiency of buildings, and developing fuels from sunlight.

The authors built a statistical simulation model to estimate the 25 - year incremental costs per quality - adjusted life - year (QALY) for Oncotype DX testing in order to evaluate the cost - effectiveness of GEP testing among patients with early - stage ER - positive / HER2 - negative breast cancer treated in community oncology practices.

With that data, they will build computer simulations, or models, to estimate the condition of the Red Planet's atmosphere billions of years ago.

Building on the handling model from GRID, the new TrueFeel Handling System will use real physics to hit a sweetspot between accessibility and simulation and deliver handling that is approachable yet challenging to master.

Our group moves between computer (models, simulation, mathematics, artificial intelligence) and energy efficiency to improve the design and use of buildings in energy efficiency and comfort.

Prior to his injury, he worked in the private sector, as developer for Autodesk, were he assisted Government agencies with solutions for building information modeling, mapping / geographic information systems, civil engineering, construction simulation, and digital prototyping.

Several two - factor, three factor, and a complex multi-factor model built using Monte Carlo simulation to optimize weightings are presented.

I've been using the solar flux and planck's law and ground heat conductivity and capacitance to build a (very simple) «climate» simulation model that showed the energy exchanges over a day.

Dr. Judith Curry notes «The most recent climate model simulations used in the AR5 indicate that the warming stagnation since 1998 is no longer consistent with model projections even at the 2 % confidence level» This means the hypothesis upon which these models have been built is wrong and should be abandoned.

Building modeling and simulation is a growing discipline.

We quantify sea - level commitment in the baseline case by building on Levermann et al. (10), who used physical simulations to model the SLR within a 2,000 - y envelope as the sum of the contributions of (i) ocean thermal expansion, based on six coupled climate models; (ii) mountain glacier and ice cap melting, based on surface mass balance and simplified ice dynamic models; (iii) Greenland ice sheet decay, based on a coupled regional climate model and ice sheet dynamic model; and (iv) Antarctic ice sheet decay, based on a continental - scale model parameterizing grounding line ice flux in relation to temperature.

-- The term «technology development focus» means the unique technology development areas in which a Hub will specialize, and may include solar electricity, fuels from solar energy, batteries and energy storage, electricity grid systems and devices, energy efficient building systems and design, advanced materials, modeling and simulation, and other clean energy technology development areas designated by the Secretary.

Kohler has built computer simulations called agent - based models that take virtual ancient societies, puts them in geographically accurate landscapes and generates how they likely responded to changes in things like precipitation, resource depletion and population size.

Also, whole building simulation, computational fluid dynamics and other building information modeling are integrated into credits.

So for models that provide a simulation, could you build a PDF of simulated historical conditions from the instances then locate the actual conditions within that?

Performed building performance simulation and energy use analysis by energy modeling software

Maintained and updated the embedded PowerPC core verification environment, including model build and patterns compilation Perl scripts, random pattern generation scripts, designed verifault environment for the core patterns stuck at fault grading, including Perl based scripts to convert tester stimulus to verilog memory based tester model, extract detected faults lists, create new undetected fault lists, run simulations, generate reports, visualize undetected faults, drawing schematics with remains faults.

Created MATLAB and Simulink simulation models, built HDL models, and architected system design for performance and speed.

The analysis builds on data drawn from over 750 insurers across the United States by analyzing terrorist attack simulations in partnership with the risk modeling firm, Risk Management Solutions, in four states of the U.S.: California, Illinois, New York, and Texas.